How can a 5 panel drug test, detect oxycodone?
If there is are two things I know well the first is that “people” say a lot of things and more often than not those things are rubbish. The second thing I know is psychopharmacology especially with regard to opioids. You are (almost) completely correct. A five panel test (in North America at least) tests for the SAMSHA-5, Cocaine, PCP, amphetamines, cannabinoids (THC), and opiates. Most likely the problem you are having is that these people have a different definition of an opiate than you do. There are a lot of different definitions of “opiate,” even within the medical and scientific establishment. Often people think an opiate is anything with analgesic effects like morphine thus under that incorrect definition oxycodone would be an opiate and would thus be detectable. But there are two major definitions that I could each cite a dozen times: 1) An opiate refers to a naturally occurring opiate alkaloid found in the opium poppy (eg morphine, codeine) and the derivatives of opiates (eg h
